Saturdays with Scott and John

I have a regular blog beat on Saturday mornings. First, I stop over to Do Some Damage and read Scott Parker's post. Yes, I'm a regular there and enjoy all the contributors, but Saturday morning with Scott meshes together nicely with my second stop, John Floyd's Mississippi Mud column at Criminal Brief. This morning was John's last column at CB and it's a great one about writing tight http://criminalbrief.com/?p=18150

If you haven't heard, the short story blog, Criminal Brief is closing its doors on Monday. The achieves will remain, but there will be no new content. This saddens me because I've learned a great deal about writing and short stories from this fine group of writers. And while CB is closing up shop, some of the contributors and a few of their writing friends have created a new blog. While not being focused on short stories, there will be plenty to learn from their new blog, SleuthSayers. And happily, John has the every other Saturday spot, which he'll be sharing with Elizabeth Zelvin, another favorite of mine. He also has his first post up this morning. So drop on over and check out the new blog http://sleuthsayers.blogspot.com They've got a great lineup of contributors coming your way!!